Your Inner Child Is An Idiot

Damon and DJ look back on A Christmas Story, one the most beloved holiday movies of all time. Please send all death threats to yourinnerchildisanidiot [at] gmail [dot] com

Direct download: YICIAI_Episode_22_-_A_Christmas_Story.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

This week Damon and DJ look back on a precursor to 'Saw', about a malicious misanthrope who turns his home into a house of horrors to punish petty thieves with a Rube Goldberg device of death. Merry Christmas. It's Home Alone.

Direct download: YICIAI_Episode_21_-_Home_Alone.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 11:51pm EDT

DJ and Damon renamed this Feet, Feet & Feet.

Direct download: YICIAI_Episode_20_-_Planes_Trains_and_Automobiles.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

He is the terror that flaps in the night. He is the character that owes costume residuals to The Shadow. Today, we review Darkwing Duck.

Direct download: YICIAI_Episode_19_-_Darkwing_Duck_1.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

Star Fairuza Balk is practices Wicca in life, so she made sure that The Craft was a measured look at non-traditional faiths in the United States.

 

Just kidding. The women fly in this movie.

 

A Comedy Nostalgia podcast featuring Damon Xanthopoulos and DJ Phillips

Direct download: YICIAI_Episode_18_-_The_Craft_1.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

History thinks of the Salem Witch Trials as an example of religiosity gone awry and a community punishing independent-thinking women for things they couldn't control. With 'Hocus Pocus,' Disney demonstrates they think it was totes legit.

 

Comedy Nostalgia Podcast featuring Damon Xanthopoulos & DJ Phillips

Direct download: YICIAI_Episode_17_-_Hocus_Pocus.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

 

Movies about Mutant Ninja Turtles date back to Edison's first moving pictures tests, but we only developed the technology for TEENAGE mutant ninja turtles in 1990. DJ and Damon look back.

 

Comedy Nostalgia Podcast featuring Damon Xanthopoulos and DJ Phillips

Direct download: YICIAI_Episode_16_-_Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_The_Movie.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 5:51pm EDT

 

'What if the afterlife were just some tedious bureaucracy?' is just one of the questions Beetlejuice tries to answer, along with 'Isn't Catherine O'Hara just the best?'.

Comedy Nostalgia Podcast - Your Child Is An Idiot featuring DJ Phillips and Damon Xanthopoulos

Direct download: YICIAI_Episode_15_-_Beetlejuice_1.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 10:31pm EDT

 

The head honchos think that Beverly Hills's Wilderness Girls are nothing but spoiled rich girls who don't know anything about camping, until Phyllis Nefler and Troop Beverly Hills prove that... ...they're spoiled rich girls who don't know anything about camping. 

And Damon proves to DJ that he might have been slightly obsessed with this movie. 

Direct download: YICIAI_Episode_14_-_Troop_Beverly_Hills_1.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

 

This week, DJ and Damon re-review Full House, and wonder "whatever happened to predictability?" Also whatever happened to coherent plot lines, realistic character development, and joke delivery?

Direct download: YICIAI_Episode_13_-_Full_House_1.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 12:39am EDT

We finally cover an 80s classic! A young boy meets a taciturn father figure and learns an ancient, albeit strange way of fighting. Then he learns an ancient trick that lets him best his seemingly better equipped competitors.

 

Oh...you probably thought we were talking about Karate Kid, didn't you?

 

Sorry. Poor word choice.

 

 

Yeah, it's just 'Over the Top, a movie about arm wrestling.

Direct download: YICIAI_Episode_12_-_Over_The_Top_1.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

Punky Brewster taught us how to mismatch our shoes, stay out of abandoned refrigerators, and how to give a hearty "screw you" to the Department of Children and Family Services.

Direct download: YICIAI_Episode_11_-_Punky_Brewster_1.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

THIS EPISODE IS TOO HOT TO HANDLE, TOO COLD TO HOLD. OHHHHH YEEEEEEAH! TWO MEN ENTER THE CAGE TODAY: RETURNING CHAMP,  DEATH-J PHILLIPS, WITH HIS SIGNATURE "PHILLIPS HEAD SCREWDRIVE." FACING OFF AGAINST DAMON "THE QUEEN" X, WITH HIS PATENTED "WITHERING GLARE." WHO CAN HOLD THEIR OWN WITH AN ONSLAUGHT OF SPANDEX, ACROBATICS AND HYPERMASCULINE HOMOEROTICISM?! OHHHH YEEEEEAH!!!

Your Inner Child Is An Idiot - A comedy nostalgia podcast from Damon Xanthopoulos and DJ Phillips

Direct download: YICIAI_Episode_10_-_80s_Wrestling_1.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

Long before they made their names in "Jack Frost" and "The Bucket List" respectively,  Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson were in a small movie weighing the pros and cons of urban vigilantism. This episode, DJ and Damon re-review 1989's Batman.

Direct download: YICIAI_Episode_9_-_Tim_Burtons_Batman_2.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

This week, DJ and Damon review the trickle-down policies of Scrooge McDuck. Did his treasure-hunting raise all the proverbial boats of Duckburg?

Comedy Nostalgia Podcast - Your Inner Child Is An Idiot featuring DJ Phillips and Damon Xanthopoulos

Direct download: YICIAI_Episode_9_-_DuckTales_1.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 1:05am EDT

This week: DJ and Damon re-review The NeverEnding Story, an ironically finite movie with infinite creep factor.

Direct download: YICIAI_Episode_7_-_The_NeverEnding_Story.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 11:55pm EDT

This week, DJ and Damon review the award-winning movie about a wealthy African-American man who is kidnapped from his home in the North and threatened with lifelong enslavement: Space Jam.

Direct download: YICIAI_-_Episode_6_-_Space_Jam.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 11:49pm EDT

Pastels! Hi-tops! Handsome youths! DJ and Damon review this classic television show that you probably liked and they're so... scared.

Comedy Nostalgia Podcast - Your Inner Child Is An Idiot featuring DJ Phillips and Damon Xanthopoulos

Direct download: YICIAI_Episode_5_-_Saved_By_The_Bell.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 12:29am EDT

Damon and DJ get misty-eyed recalling after-school TV sessions with this classic Steven Spielberg-produced cartoon. Does it hold up to their cynical adult judgement?

 

Comedy Nostalgia Podcast - Your Inner Child Is An Idiot featuring DJ Phillips and Damon Xanthopoulos

Direct download: YICIAI_Episode_4_-_Tiny_Toons.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 12:14am EDT

DJ and Damon revisit a collection of episodes from everybody's favorite Hallmark cartoon creation Rainbow Brite. Twinks unite!

Comedy Nostalgia Podcast - Your Inner Child Is An Idiot featuring DJ Phillips and Damon Xanthopoulos

Direct download: YICIAI_Episode_3_-_Rainbow_Brite.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

DJ and Damon revisit the notoriously bad film iteration of a beloved video game classic. If you forgot this ever happened... it's probably better that way.

Comedy Nostalgia Podcast - Your Inner Child Is An Idiot featuring DJ Phillips and Damon Xanthopoulos

Direct download: YICIAI_-_Episode_2_-_Super_Mario_Movie.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:13am EDT

DJ and Damon revisit everyone's favorite anthropomorphic cats and it's... oddly sexual.

 

Comedy Nostalgia Podcast - Your Inner Child Is An Idiot

featuring DJ Phillips and Damon Xanthopoulos

Direct download: YICIAI_-_Episode_1_-_Thundercats.mp3
Category:comedy -- posted at: 1:07am EDT

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